Jonathan Yu

Jonathan enjoys teaching all aspects of the game to HH chess club members of all levels. He applies his background in tournament chess to help students better understand the strategic and psychological subtleties of the game. His favorite aspect of chess is the endgame. He has never taught chess professionally but believes living is learning and is never hesitant to kibitz on an ongoing blitz game! He is currently teaching the popular “Learn How to play Chess” Workshop!

Before volunteering at the Hart House Chess Club, Jonathan was Canadian Youth Champion U12 (2001) and U16 (2005). He likes to travel and mix in some chess tournaments in his spare time!

Jonathan is also an engineering alumni at University of Toronto and works in machine learning and app development. While a student he was a member of the HH Chess Club for 5 years and played on the UofT Pan-ams teams in 2011 and 2012.